Quotes About Programming

I think the more wholesome things that come back to television, the better off we'll be.

Programming is a pretty tricky thing to start learning. You need to combine it with comedy to get a wider audience.

Evolution, dismissed as a sloppy programmer, has seen fit to create us as a wild amalgam of everything that came before us: except for the realm of insects, the whole history of life on earth is inscribed within our bodies.

My brother, who's ten years younger than me, worked with me in the studio when he was very young. He's a guitar player and does programming as well. To have the working and personal relationship coincide has been very natural.

Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy.

We already have a professor who's using an online social network of MIT alums to help educate students in programming. Just imagine expanding that in Facebook-fashion to tens or hundreds of millions of people around the world.

Children's programming in America, I think it's pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity. It's pretty much cartoons and Disney sort of shows. I don't find any of that stimulating for children.

Minecraft has a terrible sound engine. Imagine a looping sound file that plays for two seconds and then just starts over.

When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song.

I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.

One of the headaches of high-tech test programmes is having to debug the test arrangements before you can start debugging the things you're trying to test.

Stupid poxy game … Programmed by a Spurs fan, or some other kind of moron.

public class MergeBU { private static Comparable[] aux; // auxiliary array for merges // See page 271 for merge() code. public static void sort(Comparable[] a) { // Do lg N passes of pairwise merges. int N = a.length; aux = new Comparable[N]; for (int sz = 1; sz < N; sz = sz+sz) // sz: subarray size for (int lo = 0; lo < N-sz; lo += sz+sz) // lo: subarray index merge(a, lo, lo+sz-1, Math.min(lo+sz+sz-1, N-1)); } }

The aim of a great radio network, like that of a fine newspaper or magazine should be to integrate the disparate events and ides around us into accessible, regular programming: not just the classy events and elegant ideas, not just the natural concerns of aesthetics and charitable worthies. The result should be a mix of wordsin which those listeners who ne er read Call it Sleep might sense an invitation to do so and ... capture the voice of Noah Adams captured in Northern Ireland ...

Men let women down. Over and over again. I'ts what they're programmed to do.

But now living women wanted to be doll-like, to cross the frontier and look like toys. Now the doll was the original, the woman the representation. These living dolls, these stringless marionettes, were not just dolled up on the outside. Behind their high-style exteriors, beneath that perfectly lucent skin, they were so stuffed full of behavioral chips, so thoroughly programmed for action, so perfectly groomed and wardrobed, that there was no room left in them for messy humanity.

Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.

Being a young programmer today must be awful—you can choose 20 different programming languages, dozens of framework and operating systems and you're paralyzed by choice. There was no paralysis of choice then. You just start doing it because the decision as to which language and things is just made—there's no thinking about what you should do, you just go and do it.

That's why I called my last book Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, because that's the greatest habit we have to break—thinking, feeling, and behaving in the same way that reinforces the unconscious programs that reflect our personalities and our personal realities.

When feelings have become the means of thinking in this manner—or we can't think greater than how we feel—then we're in the program. Our thinking is how we feel, and our feelings are how we think.

Es fácil entender que los traumas dañen el cerebro, pero los investigadores también han descubierto que los pensamientos negativos y la mala programación del pasado también lo afectan.

if you're not in the present moment, you're probably in a program.

A habit is a redundant set of automatic unconscious thoughts, behaviors, and emotions that develop through repetition. It's when you've done something so many times that your body is programmed to become the mind. Over time, your body is dragging you to a predictable future based on what you've been doing in the past. Therefore, if you're not in the present moment, you're probably in a program.